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A Portrait of Modern Britain - Ethnicity and Religion - Dr Rakib Ehsan and Iain Mansfield

16 Oct 2024

Prior to that he held a variety of senior positions in the private and public sector, including as a Senior Civil Servant at the Department for Education, as Director of UK Trade and Investment, The Philippines in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as Head of Public Sector at the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants. [...] A Portrait of Modern Britain: Ethnicity and Religion is the first report in this project and – like its predecessor of a decade ago – focuses on the lives, contributions and beliefs of ethnic minorities in the UK. [...] The riots revealed the fundamental lack of emphasis on social integration in mainstream British politics; the reluctance of the authorities to speak frankly and swiftly about incidents involving race, and to show that they are dealing with all races fairly and consistently - creating a vacuum which misinformation fills; the de-facto decriminalisation of certain offences due to the disappearance of. [...] As will be explained over the course of the report, the country has become more secular and irreligious, but also more religiously diverse – with the ethnically- diverse Muslim population being the fastest-growing sizeable religious group.4 While some ethnic groups have reduced as a proportion of the wider population (such as the white-British mainstream and the hyper- integrated Black Caribbean e. [...] While the number of people who belong to the Black Caribbean ethnic category has increased (from 595,000 to 623,000), its percentage of the overall population decreased from the 2011 to 2021 England & Wales Census (from 1.1% to 1.0%).14 Indeed, the number of Bangladeshi-heritage people registered in the 2021 edition was higher than the Black Caribbean-origin population (644,881 and 623,119 respect.

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138
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